Server wipe

[Fame]

Two things that will never be wiped: red99 and neckbeard asses

Godbless

[snergle]

ahh i was neutralish for most of ad vs pof i do remember you being in wutan but couldn't remember if you were on pof or ad's side. I always thought pof quit because of luclin. most of their wizards became rmt and i wanna say half or more of the fungis passed through their hands in the month or so they were doing it.

I remember a lot of ad monks botting fg though. I used to use them as free dps for my own aa;s

[Nirgon]

Originally Posted by Colgate [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

teams doesn't work when accounts are free and take less than 5 minutes to set up

great summation, missed it

[Salaryman]

Im not doing all this shit again fuck that.

[AzzarTheGod]

Originally Posted by TacoSmasher [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

imo they should just shut it down completely, fuck a wipe

lol my ***** cutter

[AzzarTheGod]

Originally Posted by Nirgon [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

PoF duped shit, took officer bans. Source: was member that became aware after the fact.
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PoF duped shit, took bans. Source: pked the fuck out of the same guys and took their Tranix and CoF 3 separate times within the same week and at that point there wasn't enough loots on the server.

This one halfling druid Kingan w/ manastone <PoF> or <East Power> I can't recall atm, he was an alt too. Freefarm status on his alt, I'd come by butcherblock dwarves, collect my oldworld BIS item off him, and carry on about my day. Rinse repeat. He had the same slot replaced on a day-to-day schedule. I had several frog crowns off him.

Guild agreed nobody replaces gear that fast. NOBODY. mmm goog rewards though yum.

[Nirgon]

When Didadi knew the noose was gettin' snug around his neck, he handed out a couple bags full of jade maces in Nektulos forest.

At the time I ported him it seemed like a routine bank run. When I saw the terror at the newbie log, I knew he was involved.

Their best policy was you could become unkos to the guild (and be allowed to "Ruins in Sebilis" again) if you took a necro sac, sometimes more than 1 if you were especially dishonorrrabre. Kind of their way about being men about it if you paid for your sins, I liked it.

Sad thing every time I saw the newbie log here since day 1 being empty or when I loot a player but can't take an item. Lots of other thangs 2 be thankful 4 tho.

[snergle]

one of the ad necs showed me the tofs pathing bug so i could get 60 on my nec.

[Sear]

Originally Posted by Nirgon [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Don't entirely disagree with preventing people at max level from all jumping on one band wagon... but evil team will absolutely dominate. Take a look at the raid forces around you. How many are dark religion/race? Do you really want to be on a Velious box team without SKs? How about necros for corpse summon? Are we going to ask the devs to implement the token system when a player is killed that can be turned in for corpse summon pots? Then how do you prevent people from abusing farming alts to get corpse summon pots (free plane of sky/wipe corpse summons!) on the neutral team (do not remember this exact mechanic from SZ admittedly)? Do you want to be on the team without iksar monks and ogre warriors? I mean... come on. And bards can take Rallos Zek religion and be evil ... so... yeah. I mean I wish it'd work out but evil team is going to take all the raid content and see the same issues here.

One side just turns into the shitty doomed guild you can't leave. Cross realming becomes rampant and if you think it won't .. heh.

but as far as helping casual players... you think the uber neckbeards with multiple accounts to cross realm pk is gonna be a good thing for them either? There's ways around the "team protection" and you can't prevent an evil bard from power leveling up a group of neutral/good chars and shitting on the evil casuals. Cuz they definitely will do it (see all the Azrael Unrest/MM ragebringer twinks).

At any rate, its a small pvp community here now and dividing it 3 ways into teams is bad from both a pve recruitment and # of pvp targets stand point.

I really wish it would work but it can't.

If the "# of pvp targets" argument held any weight, there'd be constant pvp on this box. Has that ever been the case? Even right after launch, very few players were fighting despite having SO MANY TARGETS. Because there's more to it than that.

Pretend you're designing a game - literally any type of pvp game - and you want to go with FFA because [there will be more competition].

How does that work with EQ, exactly? This isn't FPS deathmatch, where everyone can fly solo on an even playing field. If you want a FFA ruleset but you also want players to somehow form equally-sized groups, then what's the fucking point in doing FFA to begin with? There's good reason that most popular pvp games (DotA, Overwatch, etc) define the competing sides.

You could prevent the scenario you described by hard-coding to disallow grouping or friendly buffs/heals from opposing team players. I think that implementation already exists here.

[AzzarTheGod]

Originally Posted by Nirgon [You must be logged in to view images. Log in or Register.]

Their best policy was you could become unkos to the guild (and be allowed to "Ruins in Sebilis" again) if you took a necro sac, sometimes more than 1 if you were especially dishonorrrabre. Kind of their way about being men about it if you paid for your sins, liked it.

that's that Eastern flavor right there, luv it.

part of the reason r99 burned out for me was the personalities, both opposition and pals. Not enough intrigue.

A 3rd faction on r99 not consisting of your Azrael leet coke basement dudeguy variety would have been nice. The heartjew tried his best.